Drew Dowdell

Everyone needs to pipe down in here..... what?.... too soon?

Wait! What? A V8 power epsilon is possible?

Thank you for your review. Could you be more detailed with your impressions on the interior?

That's what Maaco is for. Aren't these very rare?

so we could settle on "doable" then?

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Have at it guys! http://pittsburgh.craigslist.org/ctd/1258361456.html

I had to make an adjustment to the server and it required the service to be restarted. We're not having database problems again. Everything is fine.

13 Tundras had camshaft failures below redline. Aren't DOHC motors suppose to be able to spin fast?

There was only one such failure listed.. and again we don't know how hard he had been beating on it before it failed. The other transmission failures seem to be a metallurgical defect in a batch of transmissions. my point remains... this is a short list for a car that is brand new and getting the snot beat out of it straight off the dealer's lot.

The Tehran Firebird and Camaro club, with a hat tip to Andrew Sullivan.

Well GM doesn't manufacture the transmission.... so what then?

Ok, so I'm going through each and every link posted earlier 1. Oil pressure varies, drove it hard, check engine light came on, was loose gas cap 2. 2SS in the shop with transmission issues, no further details 3. Idiot dumping a clutch on a 2SS at 4200rpm 4. Camaro is slow, high knock retard, easily remedied with a PCM flash 5. Complaint about the Tremac transmission only being rated for 430 ft/lbs... except that it's rated for 700 ft/lbs. </fail> 6. Complaint of a very faint clicking sound. 7. Complaint of a very faint clicking sound, turned out to be stickers on some moving parts. 8. Cracked transmission shaft - there is a dealership notice out about it, replacing the whole transmission. 9. Trunk not opening with fob. Turns out the trunk wasn't closed all the way and couldn't release properly. 10. Another transmission shaft snap. 11. Another slow Camaro, would be fixed with a PCM flash 12. Another clicking Camaro 13. Paint issues on a Camaro that sounds like it was in a hail storm. 14. Issues with clearcoat. GM will compound, wax, and buff your car for you and looks perfect. 15. Whining noise, was just an AC belt 16. barely comprehensible rant 17. Trunk issue again 18. Broken interior clip. 30 second dealer fix 19. Broken interior clip. 30 second dealer fix 20. bad steering box and the trunk issue again 21. Car won't start. Plastic clip that holds the power onto the starter wasn't pushed on all the way. Fixed 22. Car dies. Dealer flashed computer, hasn't happened again. This doesn't look like a list to get worked up over guy. If this is as bad as it gets for the Camaro, this is a rock star launch.

I'd love a new CTS-V.... but if I blow out the differential because I'm being an asshole... I'm not going to blame GM for it. The difference with many of these Camaro situations and the Tundra or Camry situations is that the Tundra and Camry broke during the normal operation of the vehicle. On the Tundra, the camshafts exploded at speeds below redline. Still high, but still within operational range. The Camry forgot about 2nd and 6th gears under normal operation... it wasn't that the Camry drivers were out trying to piss off ricers by doing burnouts. With these Camaro situations many of these cars are being pushed to (and apparently beyond) their operational limits because Bubba is out there seeing how many donuts he can do before the tires fall off. Big difference.

Where is the personal responsibility of the owners?

Did I say that? Take the Camaro to the race track. Take it to the Nurgburgring. I'm sure it'll do fine...... ...... as long as you're not an idiot about it. Using a car is one thing. Abusing a car is another. People are going to buy this car and then immediately beat the snot out of it in ways that you and I can't even imagine. I'm surprised we haven't heard more stories of breakage.... but I won't be surprised if we do. Some of those stories even admit the abuse right there. Ok, he broke a transmission linkage the first time he dumped the clutch... or maybe it was the 4th time... oh hell he'd been doing it all week.

When an idiot dumps the clutch once in a 400+ hp car it shouldn't break. I'll give you that. What you don't know is how many times he was trying to do wheelies. I had a sloppy universal joint in the Avalanche. The truck only had about 60k miles on it at the time. *GASP* GM IS TEH SUXORS@@!@@@ oh yeah, it started after I hauled a pallet of bricks, nearly 1 ton, in a 1/2 ton pickup.

Awesome guys, keep em coming!

He's not angry at the world. He saw Chris snapping pics and thought he was in a Superduty.

I'd rather be seen sitting in a broken down Camaro SS because I dumped the clutch than seen driving a Hyundai Scoupe.

I'll get to see it 3 times. I arrive in Frankfurt at 6:10am on the 8th.

I had the stupidest call in my entire I.T. career today. "Hello, I picked up my laptop today and the screen cracked" ... "I emailed you a screenshot so you could see the damage." yes... he emailed me an alt-print screen to show me the physical damage on his screen.......

Resource intensive. They run well on machines with a lot of ram.

Windows 7 will need a netbook version. The desktop version is too big.